Robots

With AI and industrial robots cometh the humanoids. Elon Musk is in a race with China to see who will lead the world in mass production. Powered by AI, they will be super-capable to step into roles like caregiver, nanny, medical assistant, robocop, para-legal, sex surrogate and more. Technocrats build because they can, not because there is a moral or ethical mandate to do so. As such, they are on a trajectory to destroy what it means to be human.

750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees" is pretty sobering, but Amazon is just getting started!  When it says it is "freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers," it means getting rid of them altogether. Like Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos is a Techno-Optimist and utterly unplugged from reality.

Many warehouses are already using robots, but the introduction of humanoid robots is a first. However, other industries are targeted such as manufacturing, elder care and health care, food production and agriculture. Production expected to start in late 2024.

The paper is titled, Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control, and reveals new capabilities to transfer web knowledge to real-world robot: "High-capacity models pretrained on broad web-scale datasets provide an effective and powerful platform for a wide range of downstream tasks."

Mika, made by Hansen Robotics, is a robotic sister to Sophia. Mika was "hired" by a Columbia-based rum distilling company, Dictador. It is a proof-of-concept that an AI robot can actually perform as a CEO or any other top executive. Will Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg replace themselves with robots?

Musk the Technocrat has disrupted the world of autos, space travel, communication (Starlink) and now robotics. Has the age of humanoid robots arrived? Will they better or worsen the human condition or life on earth? One thing is certain: they will potentially displace millions of workers in the future.